Thank you! And for once I thought I was getting ahead, doing things early!
It pays to get ahead with some plants as they take longer to get to a reasonable size for planting out. Petunia, Lobelia and peppers come to mind for early planting, but SweetPea are pretty tough and sowing them the wrong side of xmas makes no sense to me unless your a commercial grower. I always aim for a February sowing.
Good luck I'm sure there recoverable with the right conditions.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
They are indeed as tough as old boots. I sowed some in January inside and as soon as they sprouted they went outside. I made a shelter out of bricks and covered the top with a double thickness of horticultural fleece, they were out in the big freeze and still continued to grow.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
There is a good reason to stagger sowing, which is to increase the duration of flowering. I sow 3 lots: October, January and March, which hopefully gives me the longest flowering season.
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It pays to get ahead with some plants as they take longer to get to a reasonable size for planting out. Petunia, Lobelia and peppers come to mind for early planting, but SweetPea are pretty tough and sowing them the wrong side of xmas makes no sense to me unless your a commercial grower. I always aim for a February sowing.
Good luck I'm sure there recoverable with the right conditions.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
I sow 3 lots: October, January and March, which hopefully gives me the longest flowering season.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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